News from September 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a Public Safety Alert warning Americans of the alarming increase in the lethality and availability of fake prescription pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine. DEA’s Public Safety Alert, the first in six years, seeks to raise public...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Liz Ann Banchs, the owner and president of Farmacia Gabriela, Inc. was charged and pleaded guilty on Sept. 24, 2021 to participating in a felony conspiracy to convert government property and to commit health care fraud in connection with the illegal vaccination of minors between...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that VIRGIL GRIFFITH, a U.S. citizen, pled guilty to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA") by providing services to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (“DPRK"...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Diassandai Serrano was sentenced to 35 months in prison for conspiring to distribute Schedule I synthetic cannabinoid controlled substances while on federal supervised release, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - The last four of 12 defendants convicted on federal dog fighting charges were sentenced to federal prison on Friday.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - FEMA will open a Document Drop-off Center in Haywood County Tuesday, Sept. 28 for survivors of Tropical Storm Fred to submit any required supporting documents for their disaster assistance application. Survivors may also register with FEMA at the sites.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
Release: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman will travel to Geneva, Switzerland on September 29 to lead a U.S. interagency delegation to a September 30 U.S.-Russia bilateral Strategic Stability Dialogue. She will be joined by Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie Jenkins.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: We at the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) are passionate about addressing the global threat of climate change. There’s never been a more urgent time to take action to protect workers (including our first responders) and communities from the devastating effects of extreme heat. We’re joining...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Nabit, who Previously Owned a Drug Treatment Center, Paid at Least $90,000 for Commercial Sex with Women who he Knew Were Struggling with Drug Addiction, and Supplied at least One of the Victims with Cocaine on Several Occasions.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
Release: DES MOINES - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a handgun from making its way onboard an airplane at Des Moines International Airport (DSM) Sunday.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shermart D. Merriwether, 26, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to distribution of fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a Public Safety Alert warning Americans of the alarming increase in the lethality and availability of fake prescription pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine. DEA’s Public Safety Alert, the first in six years, seeks to raise public...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Prineville, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management Prineville District Office will accept new permit applications for guiding activities that require watercraft on the Lower Deschutes River, October 1 - 29, 2021. The permit is for non-motorized activities on the lower 100 miles of the Deschutes River. Successful applicants would be able to start using their permit in the 2022 boating season.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, United States District Judge Frederic Block sentenced Frank Smith, also known as “Fresh," a leader of the Coney Island-based gang Rival Impact, to two mandatory life sentences plus an additional 20 years’ imprisonment for racketeering, including predicate...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Asante James, of Freeport, Illinois, has admitted to a counterfeit charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Jackie Mitchell Jr., 29, of Akron, was sentenced on Sept. 22, 2021, by Judge Benita Y. Pearson to a term of 15 years imprisonment after Mitchell pleaded guilty in June of 2021 to felon in possession of firearm and possession of an unregistered short-barrel shotgun.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
Release: Douglas D. Jones assumed his responsibilities as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in September 2021. He oversees European security, including NATO, the OSCE, and conventional arms control, Northern Europe, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Nordic and Baltic countries, as well as Arctic Security.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Central Ore. -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Prineville District Office will soon begin aerial spraying of the herbicide imazapic on 370 acres of land burned by the 2020 White River Fire. This area is located ten miles west of Maupin, Oregon.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announcing it has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) in which...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act, which helps make information about how the federal government...
